Solitary wave solution for a generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV and MKdV equations: A semi-analytical approach

Abstract

Nonlinear fractional differential equations (NFDEs) offer an effective model of numerous phenomena in applied sciences such as ocean engineering, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics. Some studies in control theory, biology, economy, and electrodynamics, etc. demonstrate that NFDEs play the primary role in explaining various phenomena arising in real-life. Now-a-day NFDEs in various scientific fields in particular optical fibers, chemical physics, solid-state physics, and so forth have the most important subjects for study. Finding exact responses to these equations will help us to a better understanding of our environmental nonlinear physical phenomena. In this regard, in the present study, we have applied fractional reduced differential transform method (FRDTM) to obtain the solution of nonlinear time-fractional Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV and MKdV equations. The novelty of the FRDTM is that it does not require any discretization, transformation, perturbation, or any restrictive conditions. Moreover, this method requires less computation compared to other methods. Computed results are compared with the existing results for the special cases of integer order. The present results are in good agreement with the existing solutions. Here, the fractional derivatives are considered in the Caputo sense. The presented method is a semi-analytical method based on the generalized Taylor series expansion and yields an analytical solution in the form of a polynomial.